Essentials Of Statistics For Business & Economics
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780357045435
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 3.4, Problem 51E
Pharmaceutical Company Sales. Annual sales, in millions of dollars, for 21 pharmaceutical companies follow.
- a. Provide a five-number summary.
- b. Compute the lower and upper limits.
- c. Do the data contain any outliers?
- d. Johnson & Johnson’s sales are the largest on the list at $14,138 million. Suppose a data entry error (a transposition) had been made and the sales had been entered as $41,138 million. Would the method of detecting outliers in part (c) identify this problem and allow for correction of the data entry error?
- e. Show a boxplot.
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